Oh do grow up. I went back to university and was teaching engineering students part time for a few years back at the time this site started. If you had tried harder at high school you could have been one of my students.
I'll be real interested to see the benchmarks when they come out.
So everything above that line was based on pure guesswork? Is this another one of those "social media workers" doing a "viral campaign" for Intel or does it just look that way?
Perhaps true in some cases but not exactly essential is it? The older posters here would have never been to a pre-school when they were young, and probably a pile of the newer ones as well. As blunt instrument attempted social engineering goes it's mostly harmless.
Hey you are the one that brought up that I'm an engineer not me Crashdoxy. I'm not going to tell you any more to help with your ridiculous search for ammo for personal attacks.
BTW - I changed my sig just for you. Maybe you should take a look at that book - it might help.
Thus, nobody can write anything interesting about the future that is not an eco-doom disaster movie remake
On the other hand the Japanese did a thing called "Yokohama Shopping Trip" (YKK) some years back that's a very light and cheery thing in a post eco-doom setting. More recently "Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn" is in a setting where very large craters are on maps but it's very bright and cheerful. There's a lot of SF anime that avoids the eco-doom SF entirely despite anime being an early adopter of the genre.
I rather liked "Neverwhere", though the low budget showed
One amusing (though it shouldn't be) thing about "Neverwhere" is a scene where so many people complain about the overacting of a guy in a fight scene playing up his injury. There really was an accident on set and he broke his leg.
The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter. This was a remake of a cheesy 50s movie. JC's version is fantastic, and has amazing stop-motion effects
There are so many differences between the two that it's worth watching both - more "inspired" than remake. I like both. The earlier film has the nice touch for that sort of genre where everyone is good at something and there is no coward/incompetent/traitor that messes things up for everyone in a predictable way. Even the reporter who doesn't seem to be much use to anyone has his shining moment of glory at the end with the final speech that sums up the movie.
If you are interested in that sort of plot the most recent "Sword Art Online" books go in that sort of direction, but it's humans who have set up the simulation for the purpose of creating virtual drone pilots or similar. One theme of that series is "A.I. is hard but let's throw enough resources at it to approach it from two directions". Currently impossible levels of computational power are solved FTL travel style with a handwaving "it's quantum computing" plot device.
Yes. One of many examples is that soon after Terry Gilliam was given the job of directing the first Harry Potter movie an exec suddenly found out how popular the series was, sacked Gilliam and gave it to his friend Chris Columbus.
Calling it Zion was enough of a clue that originality had left the building and that some shit like Neo being Jesus+Zeus with guns was incoming.
When names of significance get used as a crutch (so the viewer can bring in more meaning than the film can provide) you can expect the story to be lame.
I think your ideas (mpercy) would have resulted in a better movie than what we ended up with for number 3. I think there is some merit in the suggestion that "The Matrix" was made because "Dark City" with a very similar premise was being made at the same time (or vice versa - see also 3 asteroid movies being made in the same year, 2 Dalai Lama one etc etc). "Dark City" has nowhere near the action of the Matrix but IMHO it actually makes a lot more sense. People as batteries? Lame. In "Dark City" those controlling the people have a much better reason to be messing with perceived reality.
To rub things in there wasn't much actually original in "The Matrix". While that isn't such a problem with a one-off thing since "good artists steal" and it put a of lot different stuff together in one place it gets a bit much when a derivative product gets digested and regurgitated again. Even the green letters scrolling down the screen was taken from an anime called "Sumeba Miyako no Cosmos-s Suttoko Taisen Dokkoidaa", which was itself very much a derivative product (superhero comedy), so it probably came from somewhere before that.
I was a bit incorrect - it was in 1976 and the FBI worked hard at tracking down people that other agencies appeared to already be aware of (operation condor). Eventually diplomatic deals were made and some people did a token amount of time for the crime.
When you buy beef, how long do you think it is since it said "moo"?
Refridgeration is involved early in the process at an abattoir so the meat doesn't go off. With roo shooting it's a bit late in the process, sometimes very late and in very hot places. You don't want to eat a dead roo that's been in the sun all day at 30C plus, and then not a lot cooler overnight as a rare steak (or at least I do not want to). In colder climates it doesn't matter so much.
So you're saying that most people overcook steaks?
It's you that needs to calm down, you stupid fat cunt.
WTF is your problem? Even pointing out in a pile of places that it's only an opinion wasn't good enough for you and you got that fucking angry? Tiptoeing around you isn't good enough?
Ah - doxx guy is doxxing again and got it wrong. The funny thing about large industries is that they employ more than one type of engineer, and a wide range of service industries that also employ more than one type of engineer. The funny thing about you is you keep moving the goalposts over and over and over - to what, acid mine drainage now? WTF? You didn't even try to understand my incredibly simple example did you and seem proud of your failure to attempt it and then you pretended I don't understand some easy high school stuff - what a piece of work! So what are you going to do - spam all my posts again because I dared to be critical of your "we can't do anything that looks remotely green" political FUD posts?
Crash is a bit of a serial offender in attacking any bit of science or technology that could be considered "green" in any way. He threw doubt on this process for that reason.
Some years back the Chilean government murdered a guy they didn't like with a carbomb in Washington D.C. It somewhat annoyed the Reagan government but the perpetrators were released without charge. When governments break laws in other nations it tends to get sorted out with diplomatic shouting instead of anything related to the rule of law.
I'm saying most people do not cook all of their beef as extremely rare steaks as far as I can tell. Whether that is overcooked or not is personal preference. Has that calmed you down and clarified my comment? All I was trying to say is that some meat does not cope well with some cooking processes that will result in another type of meat being far more edible. Vat grown meat is likely to need to be cooked in specific ways for best results. Seriously people - do I really have to skirt around food preferences this carefully to avoid somebody being triggered by an accusation of bad taste? From what's written above you'd consider the steaks I cook far too lean and incinerated, than I add the insult of beetroot and pineapple to the steakburger. Take that food snob:)
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Oh do grow up. I went back to university and was teaching engineering students part time for a few years back at the time this site started. If you had tried harder at high school you could have been one of my students.
So everything above that line was based on pure guesswork?
Is this another one of those "social media workers" doing a "viral campaign" for Intel or does it just look that way?
Perhaps true in some cases but not exactly essential is it? The older posters here would have never been to a pre-school when they were young, and probably a pile of the newer ones as well.
As blunt instrument attempted social engineering goes it's mostly harmless.
Hey you are the one that brought up that I'm an engineer not me Crashdoxy. I'm not going to tell you any more to help with your ridiculous search for ammo for personal attacks.
BTW - I changed my sig just for you. Maybe you should take a look at that book - it might help.
So me knowing about a catalyst used in margarine production is proof that I am not an engineer?
Please show how that is proof.
You really think so spamdoxy?
Pretty thin skinned aren't you spamdoxy?
Since it's pre-school that's kind of irrelevant. It's a place to park children and a play group not a school.
On the other hand the Japanese did a thing called "Yokohama Shopping Trip" (YKK) some years back that's a very light and cheery thing in a post eco-doom setting. More recently "Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn" is in a setting where very large craters are on maps but it's very bright and cheerful. There's a lot of SF anime that avoids the eco-doom SF entirely despite anime being an early adopter of the genre.
If you are talking about "Hamilton" the thing was about a politician FFS so that's kind of expected - there is other stuff to see.
One amusing (though it shouldn't be) thing about "Neverwhere" is a scene where so many people complain about the overacting of a guy in a fight scene playing up his injury. There really was an accident on set and he broke his leg.
There are so many differences between the two that it's worth watching both - more "inspired" than remake. I like both. The earlier film has the nice touch for that sort of genre where everyone is good at something and there is no coward/incompetent/traitor that messes things up for everyone in a predictable way. Even the reporter who doesn't seem to be much use to anyone has his shining moment of glory at the end with the final speech that sums up the movie.
If you are interested in that sort of plot the most recent "Sword Art Online" books go in that sort of direction, but it's humans who have set up the simulation for the purpose of creating virtual drone pilots or similar. One theme of that series is "A.I. is hard but let's throw enough resources at it to approach it from two directions". Currently impossible levels of computational power are solved FTL travel style with a handwaving "it's quantum computing" plot device.
Yes. One of many examples is that soon after Terry Gilliam was given the job of directing the first Harry Potter movie an exec suddenly found out how popular the series was, sacked Gilliam and gave it to his friend Chris Columbus.
Calling it Zion was enough of a clue that originality had left the building and that some shit like Neo being Jesus+Zeus with guns was incoming.
When names of significance get used as a crutch (so the viewer can bring in more meaning than the film can provide) you can expect the story to be lame.
I think your ideas (mpercy) would have resulted in a better movie than what we ended up with for number 3.
I think there is some merit in the suggestion that "The Matrix" was made because "Dark City" with a very similar premise was being made at the same time (or vice versa - see also 3 asteroid movies being made in the same year, 2 Dalai Lama one etc etc). "Dark City" has nowhere near the action of the Matrix but IMHO it actually makes a lot more sense. People as batteries? Lame. In "Dark City" those controlling the people have a much better reason to be messing with perceived reality.
To rub things in there wasn't much actually original in "The Matrix". While that isn't such a problem with a one-off thing since "good artists steal" and it put a of lot different stuff together in one place it gets a bit much when a derivative product gets digested and regurgitated again.
Even the green letters scrolling down the screen was taken from an anime called "Sumeba Miyako no Cosmos-s Suttoko Taisen Dokkoidaa", which was itself very much a derivative product (superhero comedy), so it probably came from somewhere before that.
I was a bit incorrect - it was in 1976 and the FBI worked hard at tracking down people that other agencies appeared to already be aware of (operation condor). Eventually diplomatic deals were made and some people did a token amount of time for the crime.
Refridgeration is involved early in the process at an abattoir so the meat doesn't go off. With roo shooting it's a bit late in the process, sometimes very late and in very hot places. You don't want to eat a dead roo that's been in the sun all day at 30C plus, and then not a lot cooler overnight as a rare steak (or at least I do not want to). In colder climates it doesn't matter so much.
WTF is your problem? Even pointing out in a pile of places that it's only an opinion wasn't good enough for you and you got that fucking angry? Tiptoeing around you isn't good enough?
Ah - doxx guy is doxxing again and got it wrong. The funny thing about large industries is that they employ more than one type of engineer, and a wide range of service industries that also employ more than one type of engineer.
The funny thing about you is you keep moving the goalposts over and over and over - to what, acid mine drainage now? WTF?
You didn't even try to understand my incredibly simple example did you and seem proud of your failure to attempt it and then you pretended I don't understand some easy high school stuff - what a piece of work!
So what are you going to do - spam all my posts again because I dared to be critical of your "we can't do anything that looks remotely green" political FUD posts?
Yes, but what was your motivation for "just pointing out" the blatantly obvious? We live in industrialized societies FFS!
Crash is a bit of a serial offender in attacking any bit of science or technology that could be considered "green" in any way. He threw doubt on this process for that reason.
Some years back the Chilean government murdered a guy they didn't like with a carbomb in Washington D.C. It somewhat annoyed the Reagan government but the perpetrators were released without charge. When governments break laws in other nations it tends to get sorted out with diplomatic shouting instead of anything related to the rule of law.
Liberals like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
It's by design to stop things like absolute rule by a King and balanced by other powers.
If you want something other than what's in the constitution then feel free to go ahead and try to get it changed.
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I'm saying most people do not cook all of their beef as extremely rare steaks as far as I can tell. Whether that is overcooked or not is personal preference. Has that calmed you down and clarified my comment? All I was trying to say is that some meat does not cope well with some cooking processes that will result in another type of meat being far more edible. Vat grown meat is likely to need to be cooked in specific ways for best results. :)
Seriously people - do I really have to skirt around food preferences this carefully to avoid somebody being triggered by an accusation of bad taste? From what's written above you'd consider the steaks I cook far too lean and incinerated, than I add the insult of beetroot and pineapple to the steakburger. Take that food snob